The Bezel now just specifies extra space to add to the faceplate in each direction; the bevelling of the edge of the faceplate is now specified separately – so you can now bevel the edge of the faceplate without extending it, and vice versa.

I've also added support for adding a rotary encoder - both with 2 and with 3 buttons: the hole is 7mm in diameter, and an 11mm-sized rotary encoder without the KY-040 PCB - something like the ALPS EC11E15244G1) - will actually fit even with 3 buttons in place already.

Best wishes,

// Christian

Cool site, but why is screen white and very faint pink 3-D model? Cannot see it very well.

Seems like a pretty good idea. The PCB is not very complex, but this is a beautiful solution

Cool, but doesn't have a rotary encoder (much better than push buttons IMO) and by doing this you are locked to whatever feature set was available at the time the board was made (I am guessing Edu made the PCB before rotary encoder was an option).

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I've updated my 3D model a bit more:

The Bezel now just specifies extra space to add to the faceplate in each direction; the bevelling of the edge of the faceplate is now specified separately – so you can now bevel the edge of the faceplate without extending it, and vice versa.

This is great!

How does one go about printing that model though? I couldn't find an option to save or anything.

Hi Kaffer. I don't use facebook, I don't have account there, and I don't want to have it. Is it the end of knowing anything about new versions etc for me and all the people like me? Where can I read informations about FlashFloppy, new ideas, bugs, versions etc? Is it a way to share that infos for everyone independent of facebooks and others? Eventually, is any way for reading Your facebook group without facebook account?

Hi Kaffer. I don't use facebook, I don't have account there, and I don't want to have it. Is it the end of knowing anything about new versions etc for me and all the people like me? Where can I read informations about FlashFloppy, new ideas, bugs, versions etc? Is it a way to share that infos for everyone independent of facebooks and others? Eventually, is any way for reading Your facebook group without facebook account?

Saving values from FF config file into flash of device is very important and awesome for me:-) I was thinking about it too, because I love config-less mode in FF, and I use few pendrives, so it's very usefull that I don't need to copy config files between pendrives each time. I don't tested this version yet, but can You confirm I understood it right: now we can set config parameters in config file one time only, and then can we delete config file at all, and will device store last settings until we change them or we reset them, right? If answer is "yes", then I can use any empty pendrive and Gotek will work with my previously setted parameters, right?

Saving values from FF config file into flash of device is very important and awesome for me:-) I was thinking about it too, because I love config-less mode in FF, and I use few pendrives, so it's very usefull that I don't need to copy config files between pendrives each time. I don't tested this version yet, but can You confirm I understood it right: now we can set config parameters in config file one time only, and then can we delete config file at all, and will device store last settings until we change them or we reset them, right? If answer is "yes", then I can use any empty pendrive and Gotek will work with my previously setted parameters, right?

So yes the benefits are two-fold:
1. You don't need a FF.CFG on every pen drive when you swap pen drives.
2. Config values are available to FlashFloppy immediately at power on, rather than waiting for the USB filesystem to initialise. So banner text can be in correct font on OLED display; PC vs Shugart interface is immediately correct; etc.

One thing to note is that with old versions of the upgrade bootloader, the Flash config will be erased when the main firmware is updated. You need to upgrade the bootloader to latest version to avoid that (see https://github.com/keirf/FlashFloppy...the-bootloader).

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And second: what main changes will arrive with 0.9 version?

Amstrad DSK/EDSK support. That's the last major feature tickbox before v1.0. Feature parity is important

DSK/EDSK is a relatively complex format to support in firmware, so it's no surprise there are some issues. Jeff did an update with more extensive support just a couple of days ago and when I announce support I'm sure I'll also have a bug tail still to chase.